Search records
A constable, who has carried out a search under any power to search without or before making an arrest, must make a written record on the spot, unless there are exceptional circumstances that make this wholly impracticable. If a record cannot be made at the time it must be made as soon as practicable afterwards, unless there are very good reasons for not being able to do so, for example, an inability to obtain information owing to large numbers involved.
Code A requires the search record to include your name, or if the police do not know your name, a description of you and a note of your ethnic origin. The record must identify the person making it and state the object of the search, the grounds for making it, the date, time and place, whether anything - and if so what - was found, and whether any - and if so what - injury or damage resulted from the search.
You should be given a copy of the record immediately. If this is not possible you can obtain a copy of the record for a period of up to twelve months (unless a record was exceptionally not made in the circumstances described above).
You are entitled to a record even if the police only detain you in order to do a search but do not perform a search because the grounds for the search are eliminated. Similarly you can have a record where the police request you, in a public place, to account for yourself. This does not apply to general conversations or in the exceptional circumstances described above.
Code A requires the search record to include your name, or if the police do not know your name, a description of you and a note of your ethnic origin. The record must identify the person making it and state the object of the search, the grounds for making it, the date, time and place, whether anything - and if so what - was found, and whether any - and if so what - injury or damage resulted from the search.
You should be given a copy of the record immediately. If this is not possible you can obtain a copy of the record for a period of up to twelve months (unless a record was exceptionally not made in the circumstances described above).
You are entitled to a record even if the police only detain you in order to do a search but do not perform a search because the grounds for the search are eliminated. Similarly you can have a record where the police request you, in a public place, to account for yourself. This does not apply to general conversations or in the exceptional circumstances described above.
